Attack on Titan: Shingeki no Kyojin

[MFauli]

What I´m curious about is how they´ll explain the sudden gain of efficiency in terms of fighting the giants. Because from the OP it´s clear that Eren and friends are positively fighting them, without much effort or fear. They better not be like "duh, he´s the main character, he´s simply better than all those previous guys".

[David75]

What I´m curious about is how they´ll explain the sudden gain of efficiency in terms of fighting the giants. Because from the OP it´s clear that Eren and friends are positively fighting them, without much effort or fear. They better not be like "duh, he´s the main character, he´s simply better than all those previous guys".

Eren is the new generation, the one who lost their home and familly due to the attack. It's only natural some people from that generation will have more guts/motivation to train properly and fight the giants. It's also true for trainers, science and technology effort.
After 100 years being lazy, Mankind remembered they have to move their asses for survival, that attack reminded them of that fact.

[DarthEnderX]

What I´m curious about is how they´ll explain the sudden gain of efficiency in terms of fighting the giants.

I'm guessing it won't be so sudden as they're already doing timeskips a year at a time and we're only on episode 2.

[Killa-Eyez]

I'm guessing it won't be so sudden as they're already doing timeskips a year at a time and we're only on episode 2.

Which I don't mind. The voice acting on young Eren became quite annoying.

As for the giants, my hypothesis would be either the humans fucked up some shit with gene experiments (the injection) or an epidemic broke out. No aliens for me. While quite a possible theory, I'd prefer the humans did it to themselves. Adds a more horrific feel to the series.

As for the dreams Eren's been having and deja vu's Mikasa's having, I think something horrifying happened before and both of them had their memories partly replaced/erased. I think they might be even from a previous town where something similar happened or something.
It's save to say the humans had some type of technology before looking at those walls (unless the giants build them) and I think some of that technology rests in that basement Eren has the key to.

All in all, awesome start of the series. Can't wait for the next ep.

[Ryllharu]

What I´m curious about is how they´ll explain the sudden gain of efficiency in terms of fighting the giants. Because from the OP it´s clear that Eren and friends are positively fighting them, without much effort or fear. They better not be like "duh, he´s the main character, he´s simply better than all those previous guys".

Motivation can be a strong factor. Like others have said, most of this new batch has directly suffered in some ways from the attacks. The older guards (at the time of the attacks) were used to taking potshots at them with cannons, at best. The only ones who fought directly were the scouting legion...and they're not exactly inspiring.

Where it used to be common knowledge that the "Offense" team was a death sentence and a waste of money, Eren and Mikasa have a reason to want to slaughter them all.

[David75]

Motivation can be a strong factor. Like others have said, most of this new batch has directly suffered in some ways from the attacks. The older guards (at the time of the attacks) were used to taking potshots at them with cannons, at best. The only ones who fought directly were the scouting legion...and they're not exactly inspiring.

Where it used to be common knowledge that the "Offense" team was a death sentence and a waste of money, Eren and Mikasa have a reason to want to slaughter them all.

You made me realise that the people from the outter wall were despising the scouting legion as much as the people from inner walls did despise people from outter wall.
Not that big of a detail, or just that it shows Mankind probably did not choose the best strategy against the odds, by keeping a too strong classification between people.